Word: anticommunists
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...chief is Juan Mari Bras, 48, an avowed Communist who announced his gubernatorial candidacy last week. He takes Castro's Cuba as his model and gets both rhetorical and material help from Havana. Mari Bras formed alliances with several unions, though most of organized labor remains antiCommunist. Some radicals are now in the leadership of unions representing firemen and telephone and power-plant workers. A number of strikes in 1974 and early 1975 grew violent, and industrial sabotage became a nagging problem. So did random explosions at the Puerto Rican offices of mainland-based enterprises...
...that Ronald Reagan, an open antiCommunist, is in the presidential race [Nov. 24], it will be interesting to see how soon the Communists and their "useful fools" will proclaim him to be a fascist...
Although the army's senior officers remain loyal to Franco and are fiercely antiCommunist, leftist ideas-perhaps as a result of the Portuguese experience -have apparently taken root among some younger officers. Last week three middle-ranking officers in Barcelona were arrested; they are suspected of having links with the Basque terrorists and with a Madrid underground cell of nine leftist dissidents who were charged with sedition and jailed three months ago. That kind of radicalization, if it spreads, does not promise an orderly political succession in the post-Franco era. Said a high government official last week...
...still the colonial ruler of Korea. Profoundly influenced by Japan's passionate prewar brand of patriotism, Park transformed it into a fervent allegiance to Korea. He joined the new Korean army in 1946 and enjoyed a swift rise, interrupted only once, in 1948; ironically, for so militant an antiCommunist, he was tried and acquitted of being a Communist agent...
...Marcos' first trip to the Middle Kingdom-Imelda had visited Peking last September-was as strange as the conversation with Mao. Marcos, long an ardent antiCommunist, has for years ruthlessly suppressed Communist rebels in the Philippines. Only a few years ago, he was being castigated in Peking as a reactionary lackey of American imperialism. For the Philippines, recognition of China was an inevitable coming to terms with one of Asia's dominant powers, following the final American exit from Indochina. China, for its part, skillfully turned the occasion into a showpiece for an assertive display of anti-Soviet...